Dr. Csaba Németh

He is an attorney with 15 years of experience in banking and capital markets law, including in the areas of payment law, investment services, restructuring and lending. For more than 13 years, he provided day-to-day legal advice to a German-controlled Hungarian credit institution and was involved in the implementation of PSD I and MiFID II in Hungary on the credit institution side.

He has been involved in coordinating a team of several hundred litigators in a portfolio of leading Hungarian credit institutions, and has significant experience in representing credit institutions in civil litigation.

Throughout his career, he has been involved in government work on e-commerce and digital financial innovation, as well as in the creation and operation of JV companies involving government and foreign investors, as well as in M&A transactions worth tens of millions of euros. He provides legal representation on behalf of clients in numerous legal disputes related to online and credit card fraud.

Csaba is a member of the board of the Hungarian Arbitration Association and a regular member of several international arbitration organizations (e.g. Deutsche Institut für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, London Court of International Arbitration).

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• banking and capital markets law
• civil procedural law
• liquidation, bankruptcy and enforcement law
• M&A transactions
• arbitration

EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
 

• BDO Legal Jókay Law Office, lawyer (2023-)
• Sárhegyi and Partners Law Office (2021- 2023)
• Lajer Law Office (2008-2021)
• Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Humanities, History (2022-2025), graduated with honors
• Budapest Institute of Banking, stock exchange exam (2021)
• Danube University Krems (Austria), Banking and Capital Markets Law in an International Context, LL.M. degree (2018)
• University of Pécs, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Doctoral School, PhD degree summa cum laude (2018)
• Hungarian Chamber of Auditors Education Centre, Diploma in Tax Consultancy (2017)
• Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Diploma in Capital Markets and Banking (2012)
• University of Pécs, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, law degree, cum laude (2008)

LANGUAGES

• Hungarian (mother tongue)
• English (upper level)
• German (upper level)